Tatjana Rese

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Tatjana Rese (born July 12, 1956 in Berlin ) is a German director and author .

Life and career

Tatjana Rese grew up in Berlin (GDR). Tatjana Rese already played in various amateur theaters during her school and university days. a. in the workers' theater "Maxim Gorki", in the student theater of the Humboldt University and small roles on GDR television, a. a. in the GDR television series Zur See . From 1974 to 1979 she studied German at the Humboldt University in Berlin with a focus on literature.

Between 1979 and 1982 she worked initially as an assistant director, from 1983 to 1986 as a dramaturge at the Deutsches Theater Berlin . From 1983 to 1987 she was the artistic assistant to the director Alexander Lang . Tatjana Rese realized her first directorial work in 1986 with the performance of Georg Seidels Jochen Schanotta at the theater of the city of Schwedt. She and the playwright Georg Seidel had an intense friendship until his untimely death in 1990; Tatjana Rese gave the premiere of his play Königskinder at the Schwedt Theater in 1988 and in 1990 staged Seidel's play Carmen Kittel at the Esslingen State Theater . From 1987 to 1989 she was senior director at the Schwedt Theater . The ensemble made a guest appearance with the double project Drumming in the Night / The Baden Lesson from Brecht's Consent during the International Brecht Days in 1987 at the Berliner Ensemble , with the world premiere of Gregor Edelmann's theater version of Irene Oberthür's My Stranger Face in Dresden and Schwerin and with Sophocles Antigoné during the Workshop days of the GDR theater 1988 in Leipzig. The cultural-political differences between the theater on the one hand and the city of Schwedt, the party district Frankfurt / Oder and the Ministry of Culture of the GDR on the other, continued with Tatjana Reses's critical work as a director.

After the reunification, Artistic Director Jürgen Flügge brought her to the Landesbühne Esslingen for three years, from 1990 to 1993, as senior director . During these years she also made a guest appearance at the LTT State Theater in Tübingen and staged a student project with students from the Otto Falckenberg School in the “Werkraumtheater” of the Münchner Kammerspiele .

From 1993 to 1997 Tatjana Rese was acting director at the Braunschweig State Theater . After General Director Jürgen Flügge prematurely terminated his contract due to cultural-political and internal upheavals, Tatjana Rese ran the State Theater together with the opera director Brigitte Fassbaender , the ballet director Pierre Wyss and the general music director Philippe Auguin until 1997. In Braunschweig she was involved in the preparation and implementation of the Theaterformen festival Involved in 1995, she arranged several world premieres in the drama, including Volker Braun's Die Verstellung , Martin Walser's Das Sofa , Harald Gerlach's Rape , Gert Loschütz 's The Collector of Terror and the German premiere of Miroslav Krleža's Die Wolfsschlucht . In 1995 Tatjana Rese opened the “Little House” as a theater of the State Theater with the performance of Ibsen’s Peer Gynt . Here, too, the focus was on the realization of current theater plays. a. the premiere of the cumbersome text by the dramaturge Jens Groß Zwerge vom Berge . In 1997, the team said goodbye to the Braunschweig audience with a big Heiner Müller spectacle in the “Little House”.

In the 1990s, Rese directed Thomas Langhoff at the Deutsches Theater Berlin; in 1993 she brought Lothar Trolles Wstawate, Lizzy, wstawate or Manege free for an elderly lady (with Gudrun Ritter ) and in 1995 the world premiere of the play Werwölfe by Stefan Schütz and the Bolshevik spa chapel .

From 1997 to 2011 Rese worked as a freelance director on various stages in Germany and Austria, including at Schauspielfrankfurt , Dresden, Leipzig, Magdeburg, Freiburg and Innsbruck. Rese has worked continuously with the ensemble of the Berlin cabaret theater Die Stachelschweine since 2001; she developed three annual programs for the house. Since 2009 she has been working regularly for the Berlin Festival Schloss Britz. Here she staged the baroque opera The Beggar's Opera by John Gay and Johann Christoph Pepusch in 2009 . With her staging of the comic Intermezzo Livietta and Tracollo by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi , the Kulturstall Schloss Britz was opened in the summer of 2011. In November 2011 she staged Die Neuköllner Zauberflöte - a co-production between the Festival Schloss Britz and the music school Paul Hindemith Neukölln ; In the project with over one hundred participants, children from Neukölln schools and Neukölln children's choirs were also involved, as were pupils and lecturers from the music school and students of the UdK Berlin and the “Hanns Eisler” University of Music in Berlin .

In recent years Tatjana Rese has increasingly appeared as an author. Her plays have been performed in Krefeld / Mönchengladbach, Lübeck, Magdeburg, Heidelberg, Konstanz and at the Berlin theater Die Tribüne . She developed various projects for the theater of the Junge Welt, including a. the piece of music teachers, with the composer Erich A. Radke the grusical “So roth wie Blut” based on motifs by the Brothers Grimm, with the composer Thomas Wolter the revue “Abgefahren” Leipzig West and with the author Matthias Eckoldt the documentary piece Can the brain be the brain understand?.

On the occasion of the Luther Decade, she wrote the libretto for the musical “Luther! Rebell against Will ”, which premiered in 2013 under her own direction, remained in the house's repertoire until the end of the 2017 season.

From 2011 to 2015 Tatjana Rese was acting director at the Landestheater Detmold. In 2018 she took over the acting direction at the Theater and Orchestra Society Neustrelitz / Neubrandenburg.

She has a son and is married to the actor and director Oliver Trautwein. She lives in Berlin and Neustrelitz.

Productions (selection)

Schwedt Theater
  • Jochen Schanotta by Georg Seidel, 1986
  • Antigoné by Sophocles, 1987
  • Drumming in the Night / The Baden Lesson from Bertolt Brecht's Consent , 1987
  • Die kleine Stadt , theater version based on Heinrich Mann , premiere 1987
  • Königskinder by Georg Seidel, premiered in 1988
  • The Robbers by Friedrich Schiller , 1989
  • The Enchanted Mountain by Erich Köhler, WP 1989
Landesbühne Esslingen
German Theater Berlin
  • Lizzi or Manege free for an elderly lady by Lothar Trolle , 1993
  • Werewolves by Stephan Schütz, WP 1995
State Theater Braunschweig
Freelance director

State Theater Detmold

Pieces

  • Blue Print , monologue for an actress, based on the youth novel by Charlotte Kerner , premier 2005, Theater Krefeld / Mönchengladbach
  • Daybreak , based on the film Om Jag Vänder Mig Om by Björn Runge, Premiere 2006, Die Tribüne, Berlin
  • Teachers! , A music piece, premier 2006, Theater der Junge Welt , Leipzig
  • Der kleine Muck , Premiere 2007, Theater Zittau / Theater Chemnitz
  • Effi Briest , based on the novel by Theodor Fontane, premiere 2008, Theater Dessau
  • As red as blood , (title of the new, revised version: The lost children ), a grusical based on motifs by the Brothers Grimm, premiere 2008, Theater der Junge Welt, Leipzig
  • Oops, now i come! , a Hans Albers revue, premier 2010, Theater Konstanz
  • "Out of deep need" detective radio play about Martin Luther in Worms together with Matthias Eckoldt - Deutschlandfunk Kultur 2017

Books

  • "Free passage for Martin Luther" - together with Matthias Eckoldt , crime novel, Hamburg 2017

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